Minesweeper: играть онлайн бесплатно

It runs straight in your browser on a phone or a computer, with nothing to install and no account, and your first click never lands on a mine.

How do you play Minesweeper?

The board is a grid of covered squares, and some of them hide mines. You uncover them one at a time. Hit an empty square and a whole patch of the board opens up. Hit a number and it tells you how many mines touch that square, counting all eight neighbours, diagonals included. A 1 next to a single covered square means the mine is right there. Flag it and move on. You win when every square without a mine is uncovered. One click on a mine ends the game.

Can the first click hit a mine?

No. The mines are only laid after your first click, and never on that square or the eight around it. So the opening move always clears part of the board and gives you numbers to work with straight away. The clock starts with that first move.

What difficulty levels are there?

Three, the same as in classic Windows Minesweeper. Easy is a 9 by 9 board with 10 mines, a good warm-up or a first game ever. Medium has 16 by 16 squares and 40 mines. Hard is 30 by 16 with 99 mines, a real test of patience. On a phone held upright, Hard turns to 16 by 30 so the squares stay big enough for a fingertip.

What is the daily board?

Once a day there is a single 16 by 16 board with 40 mines, the same for every player. The start is already open, so everyone begins from the same spot and all that counts is who reaches the end faster without slipping up. If you lose, the game tells you how much of the board you cleared, and you can try again.

How do I clear the board faster?

The quickest tool is the chord. When a number already has as many flags around it as it shows, tap or click it and all the remaining squares around it open at once. Make sure the flags are right first, because a wrong one will uncover a mine. It also pays to learn the usual patterns: ones and twos along the edge of the board often give away exactly where a mine sits. Leave guessing for the very end, when logic truly has nothing left to say.

How do the controls work?

On a phone a tap uncovers a square and a long press places a flag. If holding does not suit you, turn on the Flag button in the bar and an ordinary tap will mark a mine instead. On a computer the left mouse button uncovers a square and the right one plants a flag, and you can chord with the left, the right or both buttons together. You can also play with the keyboard alone: the arrow keys move the cursor, Space or Enter uncovers, F places a flag and R starts over.

How is the score worked out?

The game remembers your best time on every level. The leaderboard score depends on both time and level: the faster you finish, the more points you get, and Medium counts three times, Hard eight times as much as Easy. That is why a quick game on a big board scores the most.